'Fabulous' DAILY MAILIn this brand-new collection of the finest classic recipes, Si King and Dave Myers, AKA the Hairy Bikers, celebrate the riches and delights of great home cooking. Always triple-tested, always full of flavour, Si and Dave's recipes are everything we love about great food.From savoury classics such as the perfect prawn cocktail, homely homity pie, rich Lancashire hotpot and herb-stuffed shoulder of lamb, to sweet crowd-pleasing puds like jam roly poly and deep-filled lemon meringue pie, there are recipe favourites on every page.With chapters on soups and salads, family suppers, classic comfort food, Sunday dinners, BBQ and picnics, tea time and puddings - this collection caters for all. It also has a fantastic Christmas section on classic festive feasts with all-new Biker twists.So, be inspired to cook the very best of the Bikers in this new collection of their favourite recipes and ever-popular modern British classics.
Big hearted, down-to-earth cooks with a love of good food, they have been cooking together for more than twenty years. They have created haute cuisine dishes with Michelin-starred chefs and travelled the world in the pursuit of great food. They've also explored the length and breadth of the British Isles to discover brand new recipes and create their own fresh takes on cooking classics. The stars of several hit television shows, they are the UK's most popular cookery writing duo.
Si and Dave are life-long foodies and passionate cooks; they met through work on the set of a drama (appropriately enough on a Catherine Cookson adaptation) and they take every opportunity they can to pack their panniers and head off in search of authentic culinary and cultural experiences in all corners of the world.
1st read: Completely NOT expecting to love this one. I was wrong. It is great. Good job.
2nd read: I was way off base. This is not not merely great. For what it is it is stellar. This is a useful, friendly and utterly superb work of art.
My wife and I always loved Dave Myers episode of WILTY. Heat shield! Cat ate my turkey! I expected this book to be a half-hearted celebrity effort. Silly assumption.
Thanks HB, and God Speed to you, Dave, while you battle cancer. Our prayers are with you.
The recipes are not classics in the true sense of the word, there classics with a twist, quite expensive too to make. With most having a lot of ingredients too. But there are quite good.